désastre
\de.zastʁ\
The verdict
“désastre” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,101
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Événement funeste ; grand malheur ; les effets qui en résultent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desastre · désastre · French
désastre · rank #8,101 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,101
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déplacé
Nearest frequency peer: déplacé (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « désastre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déesse
déesse
91,903 corpus weight
- déménager
déménager
91,902 corpus weight
- déplacé
déplacé
91,901 corpus weight
- désastre
désastre
91,900 corpus weight
- désespoir
désespoir
91,899 corpus weight
- détente
détente
91,898 corpus weight
What this shows « désastre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désastre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.zastʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désastre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around désastre (IPA \de.zastʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,101 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Événement funeste ; grand malheur ; les effets qui en résultent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for désastre, with forms such as "ddésastre", "desastre", and "dséastre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dévastée", "désastres", "désastreux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is désastre, spelled D-É-S-A-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Événement funeste ; grand malheur ; les effets qui en résultent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désastre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le désastre de Mohacz (1526) où mourut le roi Louis II ouvre pour la Hongrie et la Slovaquie la période de domination ottomane qui dure jusqu'au traité de Požarevac (1718).
Quoi qu’il en soit, on peut imaginer que le désastre phylloxérique mit subitement en présence des plus dures nécessités toute une population vigneronne qui avait jusque-là vécu insouciante sur ses coteaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésastre
- desastre
- dséastre
- déasstre
- désasrte
- désasstre
- désaster
- désastrre
- désasttre
- désatsre
- déssastre
- déssatre
- édsastre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désastre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).